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Friday, January 18, 2013

Surah Falaq - Highlights

Whose protection are you seeking and against whom are you seeking it? Who are you escaping?
Surah Falaq It deals with the actions of the creation of Allah, they are beyond our control, we are victimized by them. While Surah Nass deals with the evil acts within ourselves that we are responsible for. There is more desperation in the latter Surah because there is a greater danger. 

6th or 7th year after Hudaibiyyah - the Makkans are not the biggest threat to Islam anymore. When Muhammad (s.a.w) made a peace treaty with the pagans
Labeen bin 3Asim, from the Banu Zuraiq. He claimed to have accepted Islam but at best we can say that he was a hypocrite. The Jews of Khaybr solicit his help because he was a magician. He was master sorcerer of the time. He paid the jewish servant boy of the prophet (s.a.w) to get the prophet's comb (s.a.w). He takes the hair from the comb and makes a device, attaches the prophet's (s.a.w) hair. He cast the spell on the device and hair and hide it under the well of  Dhu Arwaan and put a rock over it. The Prophet (s.a.w) would feel it psychological burden. He felt being squeezed from the inside. He would forget what he had done, didn't do. He was physically and emotionally agitated. But it was not something anyone else could see. It was a physical experience. 

ijarah - to give protection to someone against an enemy that you can seen. But protection from an enemy that cannot be seen is isti3aadha. 
Ma3aadh - place where you find refuge (yusuf said ma3aadh Allah). 
أَعُوذُ - I am giving myself up and entering in the fort of protection. I have no prower to protect myself, I am submitting myself to Allah, I letting Allah do that. 
فَلَقِ - to rip open something when something else comes out. Like you tear the pillow and the fluff come out. It refer to the morning, the day break and rips through the darkness. When a seed rips open and a plant comes  out. All of creation, includes all that Allah made because it came into existence by breaking its outer shell. Spring tears from the earth, rain rips through the cloud, children come out of the womb of the mother. The big bang was an explosion. Even microscopic creature split and multiply into many more. Allah is the Master of birth, the birth of rain, of spring water, of life. Allah is not born and He does not give birth but He owns the act of birth. He needs know one and everything is desperate and turns to Him to satisfy their needs. This Surah is a practical manifestation that we all need Him. 

Being put into psychological fear, night, magic, jealous. So when Allah says فَلَقِ it is like Allah rips through our problems. He tears open our constriction and gives us relaxation. 
Magic is a darkness of shirk. Tawheed is noor/light. The word for all kinds of shirk is dhulumaat - darknesses. Dark is synonymous with evi. He has a dark personality, dark intentions etc. 
So you call on the lightness of the day to rescue you from all the darknesses that exist. If we really want Allah to protect us then we must be in obedience to Him. Enter not only the protection of Allah but also His worship and obedience. 

 شَرِّ - something that can harm. Every creation of Allah has an element/potential harm in them. 
really dark with clouds. Harms that come in night. Watch the documentaries of what happens on friday غَاسِقٍ and saturday night. The potential of evil is far superior at night. 
وَقَبَ so dark when things become invisible. We cannot see them (shayateen). Magnetic pull of the full moon has affects on the human being. Humans become more violent. People do experience aggression because of certain cycles of the moon. That is where lunatic comes from. Don't hang out at night, curb that behaviour and get rid of it. Who are the kinds of people you see late at night at the resturant. How awesome is your fajr going to be if you stay awake and out all night? 

النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ - ones who blow over and over again, trying to produce this magic in knots. 

حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ - this is the root of the problem. Why do people cast spells, why are they violent and fight and cause harm? They are jealous. Jealousy strikes the Muslims within the house/family. The FBI get calls like 100x Muslims snitching on other Muslims saying xyz is a terrorist and that person is like their in-laws or in their competiting business vendor. 
When you have jealousy, its only a matter of time that you will act it out. So don't even have jealousy in your heart. 

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